OT: NYT article on Wisky QB Russell Wilson

Interesting article about Russell Wilson. I'd never read anything about him before, but he sounds like a good kid from a great family. Might be good we don't have to face him unless/until it's the conference championship game.

When I first heard of the Wilson transfer rumors, I was admittedly jaded and thought this was nothing but a "gun-for-hire" free agent move for a college QB looking to up his NFL draft stock. Since I live in Badger Country, I admittedly made a few snide remarks to my Badger brethren about Bielema signing his soul away for a one-year band-aid solution to their shaky QB situation. But this kid is a solid citizen. He graduated in 3.5 years. It took me 4.5 years to graduate from UM, and I didn't play football (although I did work in the Couzens Hall cafeteria). As much as I despise the loopholish way that he was able to transfer to Wisconsin w/o having to sit out a year, I have to admit that I will not root against him in an OSU-fan "I-hope-you-tear-your-f#cking-ACL-because-you-didn't-come-to-my-school" kind of way.

Tidbit that I didn't know: Wilson is listed as 5'11". I didn't realize he was kinda short for a D1 QB.

I just think that if you're going to grad school, it should be a professional choice, not some way to maintain eligibility so that you can play football. Add in the collaborative nature of grad work in most programs and the difficulty of the first semester of the first year, and the grad transfer rule threatens to actively hurt the quality of education in whatever program these guys are in, if they're serious programs at all.

Yup. Grad school shouldn't be an eligibility pathway. I've spent 7 years in grad school in my lifetime...there's no way to get anything out of it by only doing 1 year of grad work. And that first year of grad school for me was the epitome of hell.

But maybe Wilson will surprise us and stay on for his Master's degree at UW. He certainly won't be staying to play baseball at Wisconsin.

At Michigan, if you have the undergraduate grades, you can get an MS in certain engineering programs in one year by doing the SGUS program. I think that is getting something out of one year of graduate work.

It might have been the personnel he had around him, but if you look at his numbers from last year, he wasn't terribly impressive as a QB. He threw a ton, didn't complete 60 percent of his passes, averaged an INT for every two T's and is short for a QB. He sounds like a nice kid but I will reserve judgment until I see him against the better B1G competition.